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Show I A TIGHT WIRE NUMPH. wJ,fi About as Ills as a Minute, Vet Klio H Ift n Hib Fcnturo Willi tho (Jiont B j Carl IlnRcnbcck-Wnllnco Clrcim. B Tbero are over 400 Internationally Bj famed artists with the Cnrl Hngon-B Hngon-B ' beck-Wallnco Circus, which will ox-B ox-B hlblt In Logan on August 2, yet tho V spirit of tho colossal performance Is B epitomized by Miss Marcellno Lenten, B a dainty, bewitching bit of humanity, BB ' who dances and romps on a slender B t steel wire. The young girt is a new-yj new-yj comer In tho circus ranks, and Is a BB i raomber of the Lcnzen trio. Miss Yf Lcnzen Is about as big as a mlnuto, V yet before she has fairly started her V work, the people In the audience aro m shuffling through tholr programs to B find her name. Tho biggest hit In M the bIiow by tho littlest girl. Mar-S Mar-S ccllno Is aged twenty-two, slio stands B four feet six, sho wears 13 1-2 chilli chil-li dren's shoes, and until this season BB she nppeared only In England and on M , the continent. Tho Detroit (Mich.) B J Free Press nays the following about BV this year's Hagcnbeck-Wnllaco Clr-B Clr-B B "Out of tho mass of flying, leaping BV beings came ono supple, youthful BB body, one swift, flashing, dainty pair BB of legs, two quick-moving, graceful BB arms, a Bwaylng, gleaming pair of BB shoulders, and n fascinating head, BB oyes that danced as truly as her feet BB and hands, smiles and dimples that B "registered" all tho enthusiasm In BB the world, llendlng and darting, BBk laughing, humming, swinging tho B nmplo folds of her many-flouncing BB short skirts of white, Marcellno BB played and frolllcked on n slender B wire, drawn taut and springy, nnd BB captivating more than 12,000 per- BB sons who crowded the great tent of BB tho Carl Hagenbeck-Walloco Circus BB last night. BB ; "Life and movement characterizes BB nil circuses. Miss Marcellno Lcnzen BB personified, In her one radiant self, BB I the 'pep' and 'ginger' of ull the clr- B cusea that ever existed. She repre- BB sents the spirit of tho big show and B ' suggests tho finery, tho dish and In- BB ' tercst, tho nolso and beauty, tho odd BB and tho natural, the sideshows, the BB great tents, tho whole romping, live H glittering Institution." BB The time-honored custom has nl- ways been to refer to each successive year's circus s "bigger and better than ever," but tho phrase Iuib be- come so hackneyed that, this year, BB the Carl Hagenbeck-Wallaco Circus BB hesitates to use It, despito tho fact BB that It adequately describes tho en- BB tertalnmcnt. More railroad cars are K fi requlrod to transport tho show, big- fl ger tents are raised, Jiioro area Is BB needed to accommodate tho show BB than ever before In fact, tho circus B has reached a point whero It Is the I despair of many of the smaller rall- BB roads and taxes their facilities to the B limit, for three trains of cars nro S' needed to convey tho gigantic canvas B i city from town to town. BB There Is material enough n this B year's circus to make a dozen clr- BB cuses of tho old days. An arenlc B tent 540 feet In length, among tho BB' largest reaches of canvas ever con- B struct ed; nearly 1000 employes with B tho show, In addition to 108 advance BB men, three rings, two elevated stages, BB an acre of aerial apparatus, tho larg- B est steel arena ever constructed, BB which Is used for exhibiting the 400 B Carl Hagenbeck trained wild animate BB from Hamburg, Germany; 600 horses, threo herds of elephants and a gala, golden, thrcc-mllo-long street parndo which cost a million dollars. Among tho novelties offered this season nro tho Six Lowandcs from Paris, In a tallyho act called "Derby Day," with Oscar Lowande, ono of two performers In tho world turning a summersault from ono running horse to another; the Six Flying Wards, human meteors, In single and trlplo flying summersaults, passing each other In midair, tossing one performer per-former to nnothcr across a yawning chasm a hundred feet above the ground; Horr von Hitter, who slides on his head down a wlro from tho highest point In the arena, and a trio of lady elephant trainers, Including Includ-ing Miles. Partcllo and Itlcardo, both newly recruited to tho circus ranks from tho Carl Hagenbeck school. Besides Be-sides theso nro CO oerlallsta, GO acrobats, acro-bats, 60 riders and 50 clowns. |